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The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-22
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YOU?

Do you feel dull. languid, low-spirited, life
less and indescribably miserable, both physi-
cally and mentally; experience a sense of
fullneSs or blOating after eating, or of " gone
ness" or emptiness of stomach in the morn
ing, tongue coated, bitter or bad taste in
mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent
headaches, blurred eyeSight, " floating specks
before the eyes, nervous prOStratlOn or eX-
haustiOn irritability of temper, hot hushes,
alternating with chilly sensations, sharp,
feet drowsiness after meals, wakefulness, or
disturbed and unrefreshing sleep, constant,
indescribable feeling OF dread, or of impend-
ing calamity?
If you have all, or any considerable number
of these symptoms, you are suffering from
that most common of American maladies-
Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated
with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The more
complicated your disease has become, the
greater the number and diversity of symp-
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
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cured complications multiply and Consump-
ton of the Lungs, Skin Diseases Heart Disease,
rheumatism, Kidney Disease, or other grave
maladies are quite liable to set in and, sooner
or later, induce fatal termination.
DIR. Pierce7s Golden Medical Dis.
cOVery acts powerfully upon the Liver, and
through that great blood purifying organ,
cleanses the system of all blood-taints and i'm
purites, from whatever cause arising. 1t is
neys, and other eXcretOry organs, cleansing,
strengthening, and healing their diseases. AS
an appetiZing, restorative tonic, it promotes
digestion and nutrition, thereby building up
this wonderful medicine has gained great
celebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Ch1lls and
Fever Dumb Ague, and kindred diseases.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
Donna cousino's Wealth.

The richest woman of South Ameri-
ca is good business woman. She is
Dona Isadora Cousino, of Santiago,
Chill. She got big fortune from her
father and married another Her hus-
band died, and she has now millions of
acres of land, millions of money, hun
dreds of thousands of cattle, coal, cop
per and silver mines, railroad and a
fleet of iron steamships. She has an
income of several millions year, and
her coal mines bring her in $50, 600 a
month. She owns town of 1000 peo-
pie, and pays out 100000 a month in
wages. She has superintendent for
all her establishments and she receives
weekly reports from them. She is
sharp at driving bargain, and, while
she is very generous, she requires a
strict account of every dollar made
and spent upon her estate. She is
still under so and declares she will
never marry again. She understands
fortune-hunters and fortune hunting,
and is satisfied to remain as she is
Cor. Buffalo NcUs.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
THE FAMOUS sTALwART.
Grants Great Champion Is an Advocat
of High Principles.

Grants Great Champion ss an Advocate
of High Principles.
The distinguished New York stall
wart, Roscoe Conkling, is exceedingly
fond of asserting that there is no future
for the party with which he was long
identified unless it shall take forward
step in some direction and emphasize
some principle. To one of the Grant
birthday committee he wrote: 1.-The
survival Of the fittest among political
organizations now asking public con-
tidence might be realized by the re-
vival of the Republican party, provided
it can discover the questions deserving
of attention, take the right side Of
them, and then act up to its convic-
tons" This is true enough, and there
is need of such a revival in the Re-
publican party; but the same thing was
true when Roscoe Conkling was one Of
the leaders of the Republican party.
His advocacy of principle and of adher-
ence to conviction at this time would
be more attractive if, when he
was conspicuous political chief
himself, he had ever had prin-
ciple or a conviction regarding any
thing higher than the Offices. Roscoe
Conkling did not retire to private life
because politics had become too cor
rupt degraded and unprincipled for
him, but because he failed in an at
tempt to dictate the patronage of the
State of New York. He never had an
idea above the offices. He was blind
partisan, a political chieftain who was
in public life for the benefit of himself
and his friends, and man who, more
than any other American who has OBJ
! tanned prominence. looked upon his
position and the power which it gave
him from purely selfish standpoint
The only great movement that he was
ever identified with conspicuously was
that for third term for General
Grant, and the motive in that case was
a personal one. Roscoe Conkling has
some good qualities, but he is not the
man to give anybody lessons on
principle and devotion to conviction.
The Republican party Of to-day, mere
spoils-mongering and monopoly-foster
ing institution, is exactly what he anG
others like him made it.-Chicago Her.
/ aid.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01

with crumpled edge richly tinted q
pale greenish color, forming strange
contrast to the exterior, which is a
bright dark purple.
Almost as striking are the flowers
of the climbing aristolochia of the
South, that are four feet across, the
native children, in play, drawing them
over their heads as caps.
If we should turn to the sea in search
of giants, we should find innumerable
forms. The great macrocystis has
leaves two hundred feet in length,
with stems thicker than the human
body.
These cables are sometimes used by
vessels, one end being hauled aboard,
the vessel swinging to the plant. This
species attains a length of seven hum
dred feet, and in other localities stems
have been measured twelve hundred
feet long-truly giants of the subma-
rine world &C f. Holden, in
YOUTHS Companion.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
ABOUT GALL-STONES.
Facts Concerning Their Origin, Formation
and Composition.

| Facts Concerning Their Origin, Formation
and Composition.
The bile aids in promoting the per-
istaltic or worm-like motion of the in
testines, and the digestibility of fat It
flows constantly from the liver, where
it is secreted, into the duodenum, the
first portion of the intestines, about six
inches long,-and also into the gall
bladder, to be poured out as wanted
upon the half-digested food in its pas
sage from the stomach. A large part
of the bile is reabsorbed from the intes-
tines into the system. About seven
eighths OF it is water. OF the rest, some
five-tenths are salts of different kinds,
one-fifth mucus and pigment or color
ing matter, one-fourteenth fats; and
about one part in fifty-four is what is
called cholesterine, and is supposed to
be the waste of nerve tissue.
Insignificant as this cholesterine is in
quantity-less than three parts in one
thousand Of the bile-it forms the
greater part of most gall-stones. Mix
ing with the pigment, or coloring mat
ter, it hardens around casts thrown
from the finer ducts of the liver. They
are formed in the liver, where some re-
main. enlarge, and give rise to abb
scesses. Others are carried into the
gall bladder, where they may grow by
constant accretion. They may occur
either singly, or in small or large num-
bers in the bladder. When they are
numerous they vary in size, from the
fraction of a grain to ten or twelve
grains; most of them, however, are of
nearly uniform size, between two or
three grains.
The solitary gladstone is supposed to
be one that has been left after the
smaller ones have been expelled. Con-
tinuing to enlarge, it may fully block
up the passage, and cause the gall
bladder to be greatly distended with
mucus. Such cases require the sur
geon's knife, and the operation is a
sure one and exceedingly safe. Some
times the stone. causing Inflammation
and suppuration, works its own way
out, either through the side, or into
the intestines, or into the cavity of the
abdomen. In the last case it is fatal.
1t is generally the smaller stones
which cause the intense pain Of hillary
collie. The duct becomes acutely in.
famed by the passage of the first, and
then by others following through the
indamed passage in rapid SUGGEST on.
Powerful opiates are necessary during
their passage. 1t is believed that GER
tain waters prevent their formation n.
OF this, however, there is no satisfac.
tory proof. -Youth's Companion.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01

Senator Sherman says: 1.-THE
work of the Republican party has just
begun" Right you are, John. 1t has
to work for living now, like other
folks.-San Francisco Alt0.
Another mail from Cuba has ar
rived with news confirming the story
that bandits sought to capture John
Sherman when he was in that island
and hold him for ransom. The
child-like innocence of these man
stealers may be sized up when it is
stated that they expected to get $780,
600 for John.-Chicago Herald.
We have sometimes wondered
where Senator Hoar found some of his
antique political issues It seems that
he is an active member of the Amer
lean Antiquarian Society. What is
not effective craftsmanship may be,
after all, an intelligent study of an
tiquity, but it is unfortunate to get
them mixed. Boston Herald.
What nasty story that was that
Secretary Lamar stayed away from the
White House banquet to the Queen of
the Sandwich Islands because of her
dusky color. He stayed away because
he was sorely sick. but every possible
honor was paid to her Majesty, and
even the Presidents wife went so far
as to wear her wedding dress in honor
of the occasion. Kalakaua himself
could have asked no more. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Roscoe Conkling's scepticism as
to the ability and honesty Of the Re-
publican party seems to be stronger
than ever. There are lots of '.ques-
tons deserving of attention." but the
aground out party does not know
enough to "take the right side of them
and then act up to its convictions. :"
Mr.. Conkling is evidently convinced
that the Republican party has come to
pass that debars it from receiving the
confidence and support Of American
voters. --Albany Argus,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01

General Beaver and Colonel Pat
ton, of Curwensville, took supper in
Tyronne, Pa, one day recently. The
General hurriedly devoured his meal,
as he wanted to catch the train going
East, while the Colonel, having more
time, leisurely suited himself to his APP
petite. The Governor when he arrived
at Lewistown junction, was handed a
message that read as follows: '.Deal
Ganeral-Hold on to my hat until we
meet again, and will hold on to yours.
John Patton. "-PVtsburgh Chronicle.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
Getting There in Fine Shape.

II am much struck, Miss Breezy"
remarked and Eastern young gentle
man, with the immense strides which
Chicago has made in what might be
called society since my last visit to
your beautiful and enterprising city"
Eyes, sill" Miss Breezy replied,
''there has been a noticeable improve
ment of late years in that respect, I
think. We are dropping more and
more into the refined and elevating
customs of the East, and if / do say it
myself, Mr.. Waldo, we are landing on
both feet. IN ?. Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
BABIES At THE PLAY.
A Western Managers Plan to Put . Stop to
Crying Evil.

A Western Managers Plan to Put . Stop to
sCrying Evil.
A Western theater has adopted
stern rule, which will most effectually
put a stop to the taking Of babies in
side its walls, to annoy the audience by
their yelling and screaming. The rule
is a charge of five dollars as the ad-
mission price of all children in arms,
and it is safe to say that but few pa
rents will pay this exorbitant price for
the sake Of taking their. baby to see
the show, and this is exactly what
the managers desire. What they want
is not the five dollars, but the absence
Of the squawking young one.
Children-that is to say, babies lin
the theater are nuisances of the worst
kind, and provoke as much dissatisfac-
ton as the two women who get behind
you and eat candy and discuss the
play. The difference is that while
only limited circle can hear and be
annoyed by the women, the baby can
disconcert the whole house if it gets on
full power, and no amount of remon.
STRANGE can do any good.
OF course it is unfortunate for the
mothers, if they have no one with
whom they can leave the baby, but il
is better to sacrifice the pleasure of one
than to submit hundreds to.annoyance
Therefore, rule by all managers sim
liar to the one adopted in the Yves
might find a good many admirers, ant
especially would cranky old bachelor
and nervous old maids hail it with de
light. Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
HENRY l.. BIOSSiT, Business Manager.
MOTHER is RESTING,

The long rough road is ended
Her weary feet have pressed;
How rough to her week footsteps,
Perhaps we never guessed;
But-with the weary journey,
She'll be no more distressed.
THE face we bend and softly kiss
Bears no impress but that of bliss.
We know that many pages
Within the book of years
She has perused with anguish,
Amid her falling tears,
That partings, change and doubling
fave caused her many fears;
Forgotten now, each pang of woe,
No grief again her soul will know
We gaze ut her dear features,
Within the casket bound,
And think that she Is dwelling
Where changeless peace is found,
That there no painful paintings
Her loving heart will wound;
And, weeping for her, Loved and gone"
We gather strength to walk alone,
Along the way before US,
Whither-we do not know,
1t may be strewn with blessings,
And pleasures we may know,
Or, thickly set with dangers,
May bring US naught but woe.
Yet-O'er life's pathway she has come,
At last, unto her Heavenly home.
May H. Steel, in Good Housekeeping.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
PlTH AND POINT.

4
Oblivion covers millions; fame I'M
mortalizes the few. Whitehall Tines.
Sinister and sin astir mean pretty
much the same thing. Washington
Critic.
-The more you puff cigar, the
smaller it becomes. And that is the
case with some men, Puck
My dear boy, if you must part
your hair in the middle, get it even, il
you have to split hair to do it.
In ancient times kissing pretty
girl was cure for the toothache.
Drat the dentist! why did they ever
come into power? 5
ITO call man q fool is not to
make him one says the Hoice. But
it may make him mad, and the mad
man is the fools brother. Or
leans Picavusae.
10, Ella said Clara, Il think
Lily and her beau have quarreled. "
why" replied Ella, '.what makes
you think sop "Well, her parlor has
been brilliantly lit every evening late.
ly."-Sun.
Husband What are you reading.
my dear?" Wife-"A long letter from
MOTHER Husband-"Has she any
thing in particular to sayp' Wife
"Idon't know. I haven't got to the
postscript yet"
Better late than never
When folly's gay pursuits were DER
And could sing and dance no more
It then occur'd how sad 'twould be
Were this world only made for me-
Thackerav.
1T is q true saying that ''one man
throws away another mans living"
The fishmonger casts away as refuse
the scales of his fnny commodity,
while the musician looks to the scales
as the talisman Of fame and fortune
Boston Budget. IS
Cultivate the habit of listening to
others; it will make you an invaluable
member of society. to say nothing Of
the advantages it will be to you whom
you marry. Every man likes to talk
about himself A good listener makes
a delightful wife. -Dorcas Magazine.
Belle Gin box)-"How very odd
1t must seem to sit down there-among
the people, One Of the men she
knows-"You wouldn't like itp" Belle
I'll should stay away. What in the
world do you suppose they come for Pr
Man-"Oh, possibly the music you
know" PUCK A
-Countryman Ito dime, museum
freak -"Are you the wild man Of the
Borneo woods?n Freak-''No. sir; I'm
the horned man from the Businesses Of
the Dark Continent. Wantaphoto-
graphonly twentyfi' cen'sp" Country
man-"Where's your hornse" Freak
II had headache, an took 'em of.
The photographs has got 'em on. sir"
IN = Sun.
"A boy of seven was crying at the
corner Of Cass avenue and Sibley street
the other day when a woman stopped
and asked the cause of his sorrow.
..S-stubbed my toe on s-stone!" he
gasped. ''Well, don't cry. Why don't
you kick the stone?" "C-cause, I
went to bed without my supper once to
spite mother, and-and I was the only
one who had the stomachache al
nightr'
Major" said friend to him one
day. ''if some one was to challenge
you to fight a duel, what would you
dop'' ut would all depend on whether
he was gentleman or not" said tho
major. s.1f he was q gentleman. I'd
certainly fight him. y, ''But how would
you Judge as to thatP" THAT wouldn't
be hard to tell. II he was . gentleman,
he wouldn't want to fight me unless
had insulted him; and I wouldn't in.
suit him if he was gentleman. -
Waterman.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01

An Australian girl has sued q man
for breach Of promise and laid her dam
ages at half million dollars. He was
the only manageable man for eighty
miles around, and she can't hope 70
ever secure another chance.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
In his letter tn the Amor

In his letter to the Americas
Club, Mr.. Conkling says the Republic
can party is body which has not yet
disbanded. Not yet, but the chances
are that it will before the close Of tho
year 1883, -Dss Moines Leader,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01

-Scarfs and neckties Of metal are :
new German invention. Gold, pla-
tinum and silver strips are welded after
the mosaic style, upon metal ground.
prepared by the incandescent process,
then compressed by means of powerful
presses, and finally elongated by roll
ing into long sheets or strips. The
colors are yellow, red, green, white.
gray and black, and the scarfs, being
indestructible, are considered Of
practical value. They are manu-.
featured chiefly at Baden and Pforz,
helm. Boston Rud0st
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
HORSES IN EUROPE.
Tho Number 1T tho Disposal Of tho Foul
Great Continental P0vers.

Tho Number Ut the Disposal Of tho -Four
Great Continental Powers.
The recent prohibition Of the OK
portation Of horses from Germany, Aus
tria and Russia gives additional inter-
est to the following statistics which
have been published in the Russian
Novosti. The number of horses at tho
disposal of the several countries is
shown BY the following table:
in tsnses IN tines
Total. Of peace. Of tcdr.
Germany. ..........3,2oo,000 81,596 5s6.66S
Austria. 100000 4o4W 174,09o
France .......... 100000 125,75o $4,000
The chief breeding places for horses
in Germany are in Prussia, Lauenburg,
Saxony, Alsace, Lorraine. Oldenburg
and Brunswick, In Austria the major.
ity are bred in Hungary, Transylvania,
and Bukovina, and in Russia, in Po-
land, in the Archangel district, in the
Cossack territories, and among the no
mad tribes between Orenburg and As.
trakhan. The following figures show
different departments in the German
army in which horses are employed ir
time Of war: Cavalry, 111,744; ar
tillery, field, 129, 556; fortress, $3.50
infantry, 42,7O6; engineers, 11,1S4
pioneers, 1880. In the Austrian arm,
65,075 horses are in the cavalry during
war and 108.947 in other depart
ments. The number of horses export
ed from Russia to Germany during tn
last four years is as follows: 1883
| 26,158; 1884, 81, 465; 1885, 15,W7
1886, 14,8O8. Pail Mall GazeHe.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
SPICY COMMENTS.

Senator Sherman says: 1.-THE
work of the Republican party has just
begun" Right you are, John. 1t has
to work for living now, like other
folks.-San Francisco Alt0.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-19

TIE possibilities Of science are about
TO be put TO q tes', if we are 20 credit
eastern publications, BY the construction
Ct submarine railroad connecting this
country with Europe. Those who desire
taking q summer tour hereafter will be
relieved Of the palntu. experience Of en-
during the sickness and suffering in
cideut 10 5 sea voyage. The proposed
railroad IS to be run inside OF : tu)e and
propelled by compressed sir TIE prin-
ciple was dreamed Of ard worked
upon By Medhurst 1t s time when such
enterprises met with but little encourage
ment from the stolid conservatism of the
mJnied classes Later, It's feasibility
was demonstrated by Rammel and our
own P.nkus, but the application of steam
IS mOter forced the pneumatic system,
excepting fer small packages, and short
distances, into the background. In the
mater Of submarine transmission OF
freish! and passengers, if such 3 thing
should ever be accomplished, rarifed or
compressed sir must necessarily De used.
Steam power would be altogether i'm
practicable. Tie "ce1" upon which the
submarine passenger saau ride is to be
constructed il manner to insure saie;y
and hurled along st 8 speed unaltainaole
by steam and incredible TO those who art
not skilled in the science Of
pneumatlcs. The success OF the IN
dertakjng is vouctcd for by respectable
scientists a2d the u2.ai,iated can only
wait il bewiIdering wonderment. That :
Trip beneath tee ocean is possible, fea
will believe, yet, when We consider tn,
triumpls of science over apparently
insucmountable barriers, in other di
rections, fewer will have the temerity :,
deny II the railroad is once established
people Will accept it as a matter 0
course, without thinking or caring how
it vas done, aud the possibility of msk
ing the trip will be tested Thoroughly De
fore this node OF travel VIII be YER
generally adopted.